| I'm not familiar with the current job market, but data scientists being paid worse than developers is surprising to me considering the StackOverflow 2021 survey (in the US): Median Salary | Job Title ------------|---------------- $177,500 | Senior Executive (C-Suite, VP, etc.) $165,000 | Engineering manager $150,000 | Engineer, site reliability $135,000 | DevOps specialist $133,000 | Developer, back-end $130,000 | Product manager $129,250 | Engineer, data $128,000 | Developer, game or graphics $127,500 | Marketing or sales professional $125,000 | Data scientist or machine learning specialist $120,000 | Developer, desktop or enterprise applications $120,000 | Developer, embedded applications or devices $120,000 | Developer, full-stack $120,000 | Developer, mobile $120,000 | Scientist https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#work-salary |